On Sep 6, 2007, at 9:35 AM, Brady Cox wrote:
> Yeah, I don't think Open Source Software is exactly the same thing
> as a charitable organization... although I've been wrong before. I
> guess it depends on if the project managers have worked the system
> and set it up as one or not.
It's an interesting idea though -- setting up Open Source projects as
non-profit corps and selling companies on contributing coding time as
a tax deduction. I have no clue how easy it is to setup a non-
profit, but I gotta believe that if you had an open source minded
attorney something could be done easily/cheaply and hence be done for
more projects. If that was made as a central selling point, I gotta
believe that some companies would be more keen on giving person-time
(not to mention capital support) to OS projects.
-t
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